Amyas Connell

Amyas Connell was the New Zealand born architect behind the wonderful 'High & Over', a Moderne house masterpiece in Amersham Buckinghamshire, famous for being in various Poirot episodes. He designed 'High & Over' for Brian Ashmole, then Yates Professor of Archaeology at the University of London. Connell had met Ashmole in Rome three years earlier - when Ashmole was director of the British School there and Connell was a Rome scholar. In designing 'High&Over'he drew on the recent ground-breaking work of the French architect, Le Corbusier, to create a novel variation on the English country house. <ref>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/3314399/The-century-makers-1929.html</ref>.

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